LibGuides: Primary Sources: U.S. Civil War: Shiloh

Online Sources: Shiloh

Letter of Lieut. Gov. Stanton in reply to Hon. Thomas Ewing.
Letter of the Hon. Thomas Ewing to his excellency Benj. Stanton
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Lieut. governor of Ohio, in answer to his charges against our generals who fought the battle of Shiloh, on the 6th of April, 1862.
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Louisiana newspaper reports on the battles of Shiloh and Island No. 10
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9 broadsides
The Daily Picayune : extra : New Orleans, Friday, April 4, 1862...
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later from the Army of the Mississippi : the army moving, Gen A.S. Johnston's address to the army : the eve of battle.

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From Sumter to Shiloh
Call Number: E470 .B336 1956 v.1

Battles and leaders of the Civil War, volume 1 ; being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers
Official Reports of Battles by Confederate States of America
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Personal Reminiscences Three Weeks Prior, During, and Ten Days After the Battle of Shiloh by Jacob H. Smith
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Shiloh, or, the Tennessee campaign of 1862 by Thomas Worthington
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written especially for the Army of the Tennessee in 1862 by a comrade on that battle-field and a West-Point graduate of 1827.
Sir Henry Morton Stanley, Confederate by Henry Morton Stanley
Call Number: E605 .S82 2000

ISBN: 0807125873
War Memoranda Cheat river to the Tennessee, 1861-1862 by Charles Whittlesey
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